Phillies Select RHP Munson in Rule 5, Lose Rosin

In today’s Rule 5 Draft, the culmination of the Winter Meetings, the Phillies selected righty Kevin Munson from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Munson, 24, saw action in 53 games between Double-A and Triple-A last season, combining for a 4.12 ERA and 66 strikeouts in 54 2/3 innings. According to Ben Badler of Baseball America, Munson throws a “Low-90s fastball, plus slider with hard bite when he’s on. Misses bats and gets ground balls.” He struggled in the Pacific Coast League last season, as many pitchers do.

The Phillies watch Seth Rosin go to the New York Mets in the Rule 5. Rosin was part of the Hunter Pence trade to the Giants, but struggled in a full season at Double-A reading last season, striking out just 6.8 batters per-9. The big righty sported a 4.33 ERA in 23 starts.

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Fausto Carmona was 4th in the CY voting in 2007, and had another good year in 2010, before it was discovered in 2012 that he had forged his papers and was actually named Roberto Hernandez, and was older than he claimed. He’s ok, with two good years, and many not so good ones.

Fausto Carmona, er,Roberto Hernandez or whatever he’s calling himself this year is the ace that Rube picked up to replace Hamels and Lee who he’s trading for $20 dollars in shiny beads.

Fausto, er, Roberto should bring a lot of fireworks to the stadium – not to CBP but to all opposition stadiums who have fireworks displays after each home team round-tripper.
Rube’s plan is to raise the cost of restocking fireworks to such a height that the competition won’t have any money left to steal away the next Fausto Carmona, er, Roberto Hernandez who comes up on the block.

Roberto (or maybe he’ll call himself “Steve” for his latest rebirth) is a decent ground ball pitcher. Problem is, everything that’s hit in the air off him and past the shortstop ends up in the seats. It’ll be a full 7 seasons since he last set the river on fire for Cleveland.

Sorry for the low blow, Clevelanders but the joke was right there.
You know how it is.
The other joke is on Philadelphia.

I should add that one of the two split personalities (Fausto or Roberto) is just 33-years-old while the other is 83-years-old. Rube decided to go with the younger guy’s birth certificate since he’s rebuilding with youth.

No one knows who Schmenkman really is but he’s rumored to live on a mountaintop in the Himalayas.

Those who ascend to learn the meaning behind the game of baseball from him are properly schooled. Once educated, they are gently floated back down to Earth with his mystical sabermetric scrolls in-hand.

Others believe Schmenkman doesn’t exist in human form but rather is a spiritual repository for human logic and reason. Some even claim Bill James lives in his mortal body.

I can’t say one way or the other but whoever or whatever he is, we’re all the better for it.

A little help please-
So I’m reading that Seth Rosin was Rule 5 drated by the Mets, and then -traded to the Dodgers?

Does that mean the Dodgers still have to return him to the Phillies if they don’t keep him on their 25 man? Did they like Rosin that much to trade a player for a him, a guy they may not even be able to hold on to?

Yes, the way I understand it, if they keep him the Dodgers will send a player to be named later to the Mets. If they don’t, they have to offer him back to the Phillies. In the meantime they’ve given the Mets a $5 bill for their trouble.